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Ruth Rendell

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Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.


— Ruth Rendell


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We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.


— Ruth Rendell


#dreaming #mystery #real #dreams

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.


— Ruth Rendell


#inspirational #marriage #friendship

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.


— Ruth Rendell


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I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.


— Ruth Rendell


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The knives of jealousy are honed on details.


— Ruth Rendell


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While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.


— Ruth Rendell


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I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.


— Ruth Rendell


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I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.


— Ruth Rendell


#i #into #literally #myself #put

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.


— Ruth Rendell


#afraid #day #death #every #every day






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D. Many of her other works have been adapted for film and television. In 1998 Rendell was named in a list of the biggest private financial donors to the Labour Party.

King Solomon's Carpet A Fatal Inversion and Asta's Book (alternative US title Anna's Book) among others inhabit the same territory as her psychological crime novels while further developing themes of human misunderstandings and the unintended consequences of family secrets and hidden crimes. Rendell is famous for her elegant prose and sharp insights into the human mind as well as her ability to create cogent plots and characters. Rendell created a third strand of writing with the publication in 1986 of A Dark-Adapted Eye under her pseudonym Barbara Vine (the name derives from her own middle name and her grandmother's maiden name).

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